Bhubaneswar: Smt Sankutala Jena, mother of Chief Secretary of Odisha Pradeep Kumar Jena, passed away on Tuesday. She was 81. She left for her heavenly abode at 1.40 pm.
Following her death, Development Commissioner Cum Additional Chief Secretary Anu Garg, Additional Chief Secretary Surendra Kumar and Principal Secretaries including Arabinda Kumar Padhee, Hemant Sharma, Bishnupada Sethi, Vishal Kumar Dev, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Chithra Arumugam, Manoj Kumar Mishra among other VIPs visited Jena’s government quarter at Unit-6 to pay homage to the departed soul and garlanded her before she was taken for cremation.
Her body was later taken to Puri Swargadwar where her last rites were performed in the presence of the Chief Secretary and his relatives.
